How Directors of Indie Movies Like Venice’s ‘The Brutalist’ Have Been Helped to Shoot on Film

Viktória Sovák, the new head of post-production house NFI Filmlab in Hungary, whose credits include Venice competition titles “The Brutalist” and “Maria” and upcoming films by Ildiko Enyedi, the director of Oscar nominee “On Body and Soul,” and Laszlo Nemes, the director of Oscar winner “Son of Saul,” has spoken to Variety about its work, which stretches back more than 60 years.Sovák, who became managing director of NFI Filmlab in February, has worked at leading European film laboratories such as Laboratoires Éclair in France, L’immagine Ritrovata in Italy, and Hiventy/Transperfect in France.“From the full analog era until the appearance of born-digital movies, I took it as my responsibility to know all workflows, machines and software,” she says. “I have solid experience in almost every area of film post-production from film processing and negative editing, through analog color grading to digitization and digital deliveries.”Related StoriesVIP+How Much Should AI Giants Pay Hollywood?...